Jamestown

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Who provided money for the settlement of Jamestown?

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The Virginia Company of London

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One reason the English wanted to start a colony in America was to--

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find gold and silver

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Jamestown Virginia was bordered on all three sides by water and called a....

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peninsula

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Which was a hardship settlers faced in Jamestown? Options: insects destroying crops, a flood, trading tobacco, unsafe and salty drinking water

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unsafe and salty drinking water

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Chief Powhatan first hoped the English Settlers would join the Powhatans.

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true

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Over time, how did the native people come to see the English settlers? Options: as invaders who would take over their land, as friends who would teach them how to harvest tobacco, as enemies who would steal their money, as fair traders

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as invaders who would take over their land

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Tobacco became known as Virginia's first--

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cash crop

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Which group of people arrived in Virginia against their will in 1619?

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Africans

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Additional women arriving in Jamestown allowed for the colony to...

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become more permanent with families

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What was the first elected legislative body of government in Virginia?

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General Assembly